Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Today was our third dive. The funniest thing happened. When we arrived Doodle ran into the room and climbed in the deflated chamber and said, "I want to Boat please!"

She has a funny way of getting her thoughts across by using nouns as verbs, ex I want to BED please! (sleepy), I want to TEA please! (thirsty) It's cute but we hardly notice it anymore. I am just thrilled when she says anything at all, especially when I can understand it :)

So her being eager made me calm again. We had one little glitch. After we were in the chamber and it was fully inflated (takes 5 - 10 min) I realized we didn't have the fan in there with us. I started to panic because the thought of building heat seemed like a cooking process in which I was the main coarse and that didn't exactly appeal to my Benedryl suppressed panic mode. So I called her cell and the Dr. came and depressurized us and gave me the fan. That irritated Pauli so I had to calm her back down and we were off. She played with my phone the whole time and I read and listened to the ipod. Certain songs make me feel better and others worse. It has to be something not to slow (time drags) but not to upbeat because if it makes me want to dance and move around I will get hot and anxious. I will work on my play list for tomorrow.

Thanks to my friend Katie K. We now have a DS to play with tomorrow so I think Doodle will love it and if not I will make use of the Harry Potter game she included :) Yes I love HP - sue me. My brother totally does not get that. Then again he still likes comic books and I totally don't get that. To each his own.

I have included a couple of pics so you can get an idea of what it feels like inside. I know this is not supposed to be all about me but until I get a grip on my own discomfort it is, then I will turn my total attention to her. Conquering your fears is exhausting and empowering at the same time. Anyone ever done that with something? I would love to hear about it, really.